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Month: August 2023

High school football preview: Indio Rajahs

Indio comes into the 2023 season with the expectation of competing for a championship, continuing to build their program, Head coach Daniel Hayes emphasizes working hard while also having fun. 2022 RECORD 5-6 overall, 5-2 DVL 2023 SCHEDULE DATEOPPONENTFriday, 8/18at Shadow HillsFriday, 8/25at HemetFriday, 9/1vs BarstowThursday, 9/14vs Desert Hot SpringsFriday, 9/22vs Desert MirageFriday, 9/29at Cathedral

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A test case challenging election results in Texas’ biggest county follows a post-Trump playbook

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Republican judicial candidate who lost a district court election in Harris County, Texas, is the first of almost two dozen disappointed contestants to have their case reach a civil trial. The case comes as the Democratic stronghold, home to Houston, faces unprecedented intervention from the

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Trump allies in Michigan charged with felonies involving voting machines, illegal ‘testing’

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two political allies of former President Donald Trump have been criminally charged in Michigan in connection with an alleged effort to access and tamper with voting machines following the 2020 election. A special prosecutor said Tuesday that Matthew DePerno and Daire Rendon participated in a scheme

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California firm to pay $1 million for selling devices to thwart diesel truck smog controls

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California company will pay $1 million for violating federal environmental laws by making and selling devices that defeated smog controls on diesel trucks, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Sinister Manufacturing Co., Inc. of Roseville, doing business as Sinister Diesel, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy and to violating the Clean Air Act by

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A scorching winter: Argentina’s capital breaks record for hottest start to August in 117 years

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was an unusually scorching winter day in Buenos Aires Tuesday, with thermometers in Argentina’s capital crossing the 30-degree Celsius mark, the hottest start of August in 117 years of records, according to Argentina’s National Meteorological Service. Temperatures in the South American country’s capital reached

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Crews balance firefighting and protecting a fragile ecosystem in containing California-Nevada blaze

By TY O’NEIL, STEFANIE DAZIO and RIO YAMAT MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a massive blaze in California’s Mojave National Preserve on Tuesday faced the difficult task of stopping the fire without bulldozers and other heavy equipment that could damage the region’s famous Joshua trees and other sensitive plants. Crews are using

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Crews balance firefighting and protecting a fragile ecosystem in containing California-Nevada blaze

By TY O’NEIL, STEFANIE DAZIO and RIO YAMAT MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a massive blaze in California’s Mojave National Preserve on Tuesday faced the difficult task of stopping the fire without bulldozers and other heavy equipment that could damage the region’s famous Joshua trees and other sensitive plants. Crews are using

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